Yesterday and today we were looking at a picture and planning the setting for our story. Today we were thinking about characters that would be in that situation. Hopefully tomorrow we will write our story!

Maths:

We are focusing on drawing to scale & creating timetables for events (investigating how long activities take & planning our time) Below are some activities that will help.

A room plan (cm squared paper) Choose a room at home and draw a floor plan of this room on cm squared paper. Use steps to measure the dimensions of the room and furniture items and mark these on your plan, writing the scale on your plan, i.e. 1 cm = 1 step.

How long does it take? Estimate or measure how long it takes you to do a particular activity (e.g. brush your teeth, walk the dog, eat dinner, etc.). Record this for four days. Back in class compare your findings with a friend. Who spent most time brushing their teeth?

Exercise at home Create a 10 minute exercise programme which you could do at home. The programme should include short rest times.

Create a Timetable Create your own timetable for Sports Day. What activities would you choose & how long would you do them for?

Literacy:

Use the website Panoramas to describe a setting. What would you see, hear, feel & smell.

Create a character profile for a favourite character (book/TV/Film) It can take the form of a picture & paragraph or brainstorm. Try to include as much important information as you can – name, likes/dislikes, special powers, family members, friends, where they live, hobbies, etc.

Art:

Draw your self portrait (or a family member or friend) in the style of Pablo Picasso

School Show:

Continue to practice your show words & actions 🙂

This afternoon we used Excel to create a database for a collection of books from the class library.  We learned how to change the font and colour and also how to put the information onto the database.  This was part of our maths work.  We will finish it next week.

This afternoon we attended a workshop about Keeping Safe in the Sun led by Stephanie from Babcock. We learned about the sun, its effects on the skin and how we can keep safe in the sun.  We all got a white band which changes colour to tell us when  we need to put on sun protection.

Maths Continue Data Handling

Misleading? – Look through the newspaper or a news website together and find articles displaying data or statistics of any sort.  Consider or discuss together how accurate this data is, and whether or not it has been presented in such a way as to mislead or influence the reader.  If a good example is found, ask your child to bring it into school for discussion.

Switch It!  – Look online or in the newspapers to find information that has been presented as a table, pie chart, bar graph or line graph.  Challenge your child to take the information and change it to a different form (e.g. from a pie chart into a table).  How does this affect the way we think about the information?  Bring an example into class to discuss with the teacher.

Website 1 – http://www.skysports.com A rich source of tables to analyse and interpret.

Website 2 – http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/data-graph.php A simple tool for creating bar graphs, line graphs and pie charts.

Website 3 – http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/maths/handling_data/representing_data/revision/1/ An excellent website for rehearsing and extending knowledge and skills linked to displaying and interpreting data.

Website 4 – http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/data-handling A range of interactive data analysis activities.

Probability

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/mathsfile/shockwave/games/fish.html

Play Who Wants to be a Millionaire Probability          http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/mathsF2.htm

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/pdfs/probability.pdf

 

Literacy

AN ADVERB IS A WORD THAT GIVES MORE MEANING TO A VERB. MANY ADVERBS TELL US HOW SOMETHING HAPPENED. MANY ADVERBS END IN THE LETTERS -LY. Task one. Look at this list of adverbs. CAREFULLY QUIETLY CROSSLY SOUNDLY NOISILY QUICKLY SILENTLY CLUMSILY Copy each sentence down and fill in the space with one of these adverbs. (Read it and make sure it makes sense first!) 1. I eat crisps ———-. 2.In class I listen ——–. 3. At night I sleep ———–. 4. When I am working I whisper ———— to my friends. 5. I run ——— to escape from Julie. 6. I spoke ———– to my brother Lee after he had broken my toy. 7. The rabbit passed ———— past the fox’s den. 8. Hilda walked ———- in her new high-heeled shoes. Task Two. Copy these sentences into your books. Underline the adverb in each sentence. 1. The rain fell heavily throughout the night. 2. The boy spoke rudely to his mum. 3. The time passed slowly as Tim waited for his friends. 4. The girl sang loudly during hymn practice. 5. The river flowed rapidly after the storm. 6. Shelly was dressed smartly for the party. 7. We must always cross the road safely. 8. The nurse treated me gently after my fall.

Health and Well Being

How many times can you Beat the Street?  Will you walk, cycle or run?   Don’t forget 2 hits = 1 point.  Make sure an adult knows where you are going and who you are going with!

 

Science

• Mixing solids with water. Find out what happens to solids when they are added to water.  You could try coffee, tea, sugar, salt, rice, flour etc.  Record your results in a table with the headings

 

Name of Solid	What I think will happen	What happened

 

• Here are some scientific words to help you describe what happened but be careful because not all of them are useful:

Solid liquid dissolve solution melt undissolved dissolved mixed water solidified solidify freeze

• Now group the solids into sets according to what happened when you mixed them with water. Did you get any surprises?

 

This afternoon all the P6s got together and all the P5s got together to rehearse our songs for the school show in June.  Even at this early stage Mrs Pollock, Mr McMullan and Mr McArthur all agree the singing  is fabulous.

We also conducted experiments to make a balloon blow by creating the gas carbon dioxide from vinegar and bicarbonate of soda.

 

This morning we were hoping to go outside for P.E. to continue our rounders work unfortunately the weather took a turn for the worse and, to avoid hypothermia, we had P.E. in the hall.  Don’t forget to look at this fortnight’s homework blog.

Maths

 TV Diary – Have your child write down a record of the TV programmes they watch each day, then collate this information with their favourite TV programmes.  Children should then use this to create their own bar graphs showing, for example, the number of TV programmes watched per day, the types of programmes watched, etc.

Links to real world  – Help your child to create a questionnaire, similar to ones used in opinion polls and market research.

Toss a coin – Have your child toss a coin 20 times and use tallies to record whether it lands heads or tails.  Now repeat the activity with a sibling or yourself.  Collate the results and create a block graph to show the combined results.  Compare graphs and discuss similarities and differences.

Media search  – Ask your child to look at advertisements (on TV, in newspapers or magazines, in leaflets around the home) and to try to find examples quoting numbers of people responding to survey questions, for example, ‘86 out of 139 women said Magic Shine is the best shampoo’.

Surveys and questions  – Ask your child to discuss or find examples of questionnaires at home. They could ask parents or carers if they have been asked for information as part of a survey or questionnaire, for example, giving feedback on products or about a holiday.

Collecting & using data – http://lgfl.skoool.co.uk/content/primary/maths/data_handling/index.html

Make your own graph – http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/data-graph.php

Data Games –  http://nrich.maths.org/9031

Make your own graph – http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/data-graph.php

 

Literacy

Choose something that you know how to do really well.

Here are some suggestions:

• How to play a computer game
• How to make your favourite snack
• How to make something out of paper (aeroplane, hat, boat etc)
• How to perform a search using a search engine

 

• Make brief notes.
• Remember the Success Criteria:

Tell me what you are going to make. List of what you need.

Equipment list tells you how much of each item you need

Instructions are split up into small steps.

Each step is given a number

Use instructional verb

Use time connective (First,  last, next, then)

Write in sentences with fullstops and capital letters

Don’t use slang

Pictures or photographs show us what to do

Words are easy to understand

• Use a word processing program (like Word) to create your own set of instructions.

• Check your work and get someone else to check it too.

 

Health and Well Being

How many times can you Beat the Street?  Will you walk, cycle or run?   Don’t forget 2 hits = 1 point.  Make sure an adult knows where you are going and who you are going with!

 

Election

On the 5^th May, the country will go to the elections.  Look at the election communication coming through your door or research online.  Can you find out who is standing for the constituency of Cumbernauld and Kilsyth?  What are their manefestos?  Have a chat with adults you know well, if they are prepared to share with you, find out who they are voting for and why.  Remember this is personal information so do not record this chat.

 

Queen Elizabeth is 90

Last week our Queen was 90 years old.  Create a factfile giving information about her life.

 

This afternoon Miss Wyatt delivered a drama lesson. It was a great opportunity for Miss Wyatt to learn more about the children.  Miss Wyatt will be working with P5/6 until mid May.

This morning, after our literacy work on phrases and sentences , we attended Mr McCrorie’s Leaving Assembly.  We were sad to say goodbye. This afternoon, we finally managed to read the end of our class novel “The Silver Sword” by Ian Serrailler.  Everyone agreed it was a fabulous book and the class awarded it 10/10.

Wishing everyone a relaxing and safe Spring break.  See you all on the 18th April.

Mrs Pollock